Hype, Hysteria, or Intel?

It’s pretty rare I would post twice on the same day, yet here it is. Apparently this business of the H1N1 flu virus is really jangling raw nerves. There is plenty of reason to believe it’s a designer virus, and not at all a natural occurrence. Even without that, we are rightly suspicious when the [...]

Religious Music Woes

Why do so few overtly Christian songs break through commercially? How come there aren’t any powerful musical accomplishments among Christian musicians to rival, say, the long string of major hits by the Eagles? So I’ve been asked at times.
First, let’s make sure everyone understands there is a bias in secular music management against Christian music. [...]

Truth Is No Threat

Loose lips sink ships. But only if the government owning the ships has rejected God. So let me propose a counter sound-bite: “Truth is no threat to the honest.”
Secrecy assumes there is no God. The Lord promised Israel if they relied on Him, He would take care of all the details and no enemy would [...]

Ethics of Resistance

First off, nothing in Noah’s Covenant or the rest of the Bible requires you to resist. If you want to play along and believe God wants that from you, by all means, play along. You do have to reconsider when your decision applies to others. If by choosing to go along, you are dragging along [...]

They Call It “Protest Art”

As a kid, I dabbled in graphics arts some. I used to carry a sketch pad a lot of places and did impromptu renderings of things I saw. As an adult, I managed to paint a couple of murals which people actually wanted. Most of that faded before I was 25. By no stretch of [...]

Turning Point

A parable of internal debate and resolve.
There were scars visible on his hands and forearms. It was obvious he had tried it before, and the scars were proof of both past failures and current resolve.
It was not science, since no one seemed quite sure how it worked. Nor was it precisely art, since there was [...]

Babylon Is Fallen

While there is an element of theology here, making it seem more appropriate to my other blog, there is a particular call for action under Noah which does not require a spiritual grasp to get it.
Babylon is the symbolic term for Satan’s commerce in human souls. We summarize all that talk with a characteristic definition: [...]

Bogus Health Care Racket

Around here where I live, people have begun discovering what a racket this public health care can be.
At the outer edges of the “low income health care delivery system” is a host of little clinics which sometimes actually do some good. However, that good is always cloaked in a particular religion, as it were, of [...]

Better Than Horoscope

It is not necessary to be spiritual to get a word from God on things.
Consider: Under Moses, the designated priests could get a word from God regardless of their spiritual condition. All they needed was ritual adherence. There were, of course, other factors, such as the nation’s faithfulness as a whole. There also has to [...]

Haiku OS Progressing

I’m still running Debian Etch because just about everything else so far has failed me. Most of the more recent Linux distributions are utterly unusable on this old laptop. But as the final days of Etch tick down, it seems all hope is not lost. Haiku OS is approaching a useful state, particularly for laptops.
According [...]